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Down Quotes by Winston Churchill
- Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
- I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
- All dogs look up to you. All cats look down on you. Only the pig looks at you as an equal
- I don't like standing near the edge of a platform when an express train is passing through. I like to stand right back and if…
- History's villains are more easily recognized in retrospect. In an article published in 1935 and reprinted in 1937, Winston Churchill expressed a curious ambivalence towards…
- Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation.
- I look like a down-and-out drunk who has been picked out of the gutter in the Strand.
- Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.
- The most formidable people in the world, and now the most dangerous, people who... lay down the doctrine that every frontier must be the starting…
- It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered…
- Everybody stumbles across a golden opportunity at least once in a lifetime. Unfortunately most people just pick themselves up, dust themselves down, and walk away…
- Never pass up the chance to sit down or go to the bathroom.
- We proceeded systematically, village by village and we destroyed the houses, filled up the wells, blew down the towers, cut down the shady trees, burned…
- Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia is one of the worst tyrannies that has ever existed…
- The essence and foundation of House of Commons debating is formal conversation. The set speech, the harangue addressed to constituents, or to the wider public…
- The stations of uncensored expression are closing down; the lights are going out; but there is still time for those to whom freedom and parliamentary…
- Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and…
- Socialism needs to pull down wealth; liberalism seeks to raise up poverty. Socialism would destroy private interests, Liberalism would preserve [them] ... by reconciling them…
- During their lifetimes, every man and woman will stumble across a great opportunity. Sadly, most of them will simply pick themselves up, dust themselves down…
- What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for…
- Mr Churchill, to what do you attribute your success in life? Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit…
- We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle, nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and…
- It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear; about two of them nothing can be…
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